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Vestry cess, a rate levied in Ireland for parochial purposes, abolished by 27 Vict. c. 17....
Cess
Cess [fr. asseoir, Fr., to fix), an assessment or tax. In Ireland it was anciently applied to a exaction of victuals, at a certain rate, for soldiers in garrison, and in modern times is equivalent to the English 'Rate.'Means the cess levied under s. 3. [Research and Development Cess Act, 1986 (32 of 1986), s. 2 (b)]The word 'cess' is used in Ireland and is still in use in India although the word rate has replaced it in England. It means a tax and is generally used when the levy is for some special administrative expense what the name (health cess, education cess, road cess etc.) indicates. When levied as an increment to an existing tax, the name matters not for the validity of the cess must be judged of in the same way as the validity of the tax to which it is an increment, Guruswamy and Co. v. State of Mysore, (1967) 1 SCR 548: AIR 1967 SC 1512. Also see, India Cement Ltd. v. State of T.N., (1990) 1 SCC 12: AIR 1990 SC 85.It means a tax and is generally used when the levy is for some ...
Vestry, or vestiary
Vestry, or vestiary, a place or room adjoining to a church, where the vestments of the minister are kept; also, a parochial assembly commonly convened in the vestry, to transact the parish business. By custom in some parishes, and by the (adoptive) Vestries Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4 c. 60), in others, a select number of parishioners was chosen yearly to manage the concerns of the parish for that year. They were called a Select Vestry.The non-ecclesiastical functions of vestries are now exercised by borough and urban district councils under orders of the Ministry of Health: see (English) Local Government act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), and Local Govt. Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), and in rural parishes by the parish council or meeting (ibid.). As to the ecclesiastical functions in England (election of churchwardens), see Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1), s. 13. This measure transferred all such ecclesiastical functions, except ecclesiastical ch...
Vestry clerk
Vestry clerk, an officer appointed to attend vestries, and take an account of their proceedings, etc. See the Vestries Act, 1850, ss. 6-8, and RATES....
Cesses
Cesses, There is no doubt that in Entry 49 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Government of India Act, 1935 the expression 'cesses' is used in the sense of ' taxes'. In Entry 52 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, the expression ' taxes' is substituted in the place of the expression 'cesses' which was in the former Entry 49 in the Government of India Act, 1935 but the nature and content of the legislative power under both are the same, Kunwar Ramnath v. Municipal Board, (1983) 3 SCC 357: AIR 1983 SC 930. [Government of India Act, 1935 Sch. VII, List II, Entry 49 (45 of 2001)]...
Select vestry
Select vestry. A vestr consisting of not less than twelve nor more than 120 house-holders, elected in parishes adopting the Vestries Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 60) (Hobhouse's Act), repealed, except s. 39, as to charity estates, so far as it relates to parish meetings in rural parishes, by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894....
Sturges Bourne's Acts
Sturges Bourne's Acts. (English) (1) 58 Geo. 3, c. 69, the Vestries Act, 1818 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestries'), as to notice of vestries, qualification for vestry meetings, etc. (repealed as to rural parishes by the Local Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the inhabitants of any parish, in vestry assembled, were enabled to commit the management of its poor to a committee of the parishioners appointed for that purpose and called a 'select vestry,' to whose orders the overseers were bound to conform (this portion of the Act, being superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, is repealed by the Statute Laws Revision Act, 1873). See now Poor Law Act, 1930, and POOR LAW....
Beadle, or Bedel
Beadle, or Bedel [fr. beodan, bydel, A. S., to bid], a church-servant who is chosen by the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables. A crier or messenger of a Court, who cites men to appear and answer; an inferior officer of a parish or liberty. Many other kinds of subordinate officers are socalled....
Curtilage
Curtilage [fr. Cour, Fr., court; and leagh, Sax., place], a courtyard, backside, or piece of ground lying near and belonging to a dwelling-house [see Pilbrow v. Vestry of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, (1895) 1 QB 433]; the limit of the premises in which house-breaking can be committed. See (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 46 (2), by which no building, though within the curtilage, is to be deemed part of a dwelling-house to constitute burglary, unless therebe a communication between such building and the dwelling-house.Curtilage, as limited to the immediate area surrounding a building, Skerritts Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2003) 3 WLR 511.Of a mansion house, an area which no conveyancer would extend beyond that occupied by the house, the stables and other outbuildings. The gardens and the rough grass up to the ha-ha, if there was one (According to Nourse LJ), Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2001) QB LR 59.Curtilage, has been described as a courtyard, back-side ...
Hobhouse's Act
Hobhouse's Act, the Vestries Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 60), an adoptive Act for the better regulation of parish vestries, Repealed, except as. 39, s. to parish meetings in rural parishes under the Local Government Act, 1894, bys. 89 and Sched. II. of that Act....
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